Kurban said biography samples

Jewish writer

Lev Nussimbaum (October 17, 1905 – August 27, 1942), who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kiev to a Jewish family.^[1] He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14.

In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin.^[2] He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus,^[3] the Russian Empire,^[4] the Bolshevik Revolution,^[5] newly discovered oil,^[6] and Islam.^[7] He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German.

Historians and literary critics who knew these subjects well discredited Essad Bey as a reliable source.^[8] Today, historians disre